Modality, Mood, and Descriptions

Mood/Modality in Biblical Hebrew Verb Theory

Mood/Modality in Biblical Hebrew Verb Theory John A. Cook Eisenbrauns [email protected]

Preferred modality influences on exercise-induced mood changes.

The present study tested, both retrospectively and prospectively, exercise-induced mood changes among regular exercisers. Specifically, it examined the extent to which preferred exercise modality promoted greater mood benefits. A group of 25 exercise participants (M = 35.5 yr., SD = 10.5 yr.) took part in the study. All participants had exercised at least three times a week (M = 3.5, SD = 2.3) ...

Incongruent effects of sad mood on self- conception valence: it's a matter of time

A new hypothesis is proposed to account for the relation between sad mood and selfconception valence, the first, congruency; then, incongruency' hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, sad mood initially influences the valence of open-ended self-descriptions in a mood-congruent fashion, but after a short period of time self-descriptions become mood-incongruent. Subjects were placed into a sad...

Modality and Mood

Illocution, Mood and Modality in a Functional Grammar of Spanish

In order to be able to account for the alternating and non-alternating uses of mood in Spanish this paper explores the field of illocution and modality and argues for two elaborations of the Functional Grammar framework: (i) a representation of main clauses which distinguishes between several layers, each representing a different subact of the speech act, and (ii) a representation of noun claus...